Sixday strike. Both sides will sit down with a mediator tomorrow. Meantime, the strike does continue. Places like library will remain shut down monday, at least for now. Striking city workers picketted outside oaklands Main Library Branch forced to close because of the strike along with dozens of other cityrun facilities. Sciu local in the city a greed to immediate asian with a local third party after the mayor had an impasse with parg annibargais friday. We agreed to a mediator and agreed to mediation. Im cautious because the city has been bargaining in bad faith for eight months. 3,000 city workers walked off the jab last tuesday and hit the pickett line. Over pay and working conditions. The mayor told abc 7 morning anchor Carolyn Tyler she is hopeful for a resolution. We want our workers back at work and we want to settle our differences because we just deeply respect our workers and really want to continue serving the public. But both sides are still far apart on pay. The union is
Condolences are with her family and friends. Were talking to family, were talking to friends. Were talking to acquaintances. Were trying to get a picture of what was occurring up to that point and beforehand. Reporter mas death remains a mystery for now. The Coroners Office says result from the autopsy and toxicology reports could take several weeks. In sunnyvale, abc 7 news. 41yearold bin luk was found guilty of five counts of murder today in a brutal crime that stunned San Francisco. Five family members were found beaten to death with a hammer in their ingleside home in 2012. Prosecutors say luke killed the family during a robbery after losing money at a casino that night. He was a family friend and prosecutors say he came into some money after the murders. Lukes lawyer admits his client was at the house but says theres no proof hes the killer. There were four fingerprints that were located in the house that did not match either mr. Luke or any of the decedents and some of the points
I would like to say good morning, but its really not a very good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for today. It seems like its been a long day already, tuesday december the 12th. I just want to start the meeting by offering our condolences to the family of edwin lee, the 43rd mayor of the city and county of San Francisco and share all of our condolences with people of the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank all of my colleagues on the board, many of whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg general hospital. With that, our clerk is Alberto Quintanilla and mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll, were going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayors balcony. Clerk item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, present. Commissioner fewer, fewer absent. Commissioner kim,
Head to mayor lee. We cannot outlaw tragedy. End the year subdued. Im humbled to be here. Residents here in this chamber, charles pitt came in today, i got his name, when we had the police here, he said if empathy is to be a part of our police department, shouldnt we look for it when we do our hiring . Saying that were missing our water, and that should have been taken care of 10, 20, 30 years ago. Are we building, flushing, watering our plants still with pure water. Supervisor kim, graduates of the Navigation Systems do better when theyre relocated outside of their environments. Theres districts that dont want the Navigation Systems. But they should be able to handle the graduates. We need a new, realistic housing policy for the people in San Francisco, from the seniors, that the steps in their homes, they cant navigate anymore, to the seniors on only social security. From the renters that are stuck in homes that they cant move out of until they die and they have to die before the pro
General. He was 65 years old. I want to thank dr. Susan orlick who is here with us today and the dedicated professional who is cared for the mayor last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with mayor lees wife anita and his daughters tanya and brianna at this time. When he passed, mayor lee was surrounded by his family, by his friends, and the colleagues who loved him. Ed lee lived a life of service cut far too short, but short far too soon. Like me, ed grew up in Public Housing. The son of working class immigrant immigrants, he developed early on a profound sense of community. A commitment to helping others. His father was a veterans, and his mother a seamstress. They instilled in him a humility and selflest work ethic that he maintained throughout his entire life. The mayors father passed while he was just a teenager, but heart break could not derail him. Ed earned a scholarship from Boden College a prestigious liberal arts college in maine, and after graduating, he relocated to the b